Social media where every idiot can attack you for a harmless joke, feminazis need to tone it down, to be so vicious at someone for a harmless joke, telling him to die, so classy feminazis bravo. Everyone is so sensitive these days grow a pair and stop being offended by every tiny thing. Im just waiting for Sessler and Polygon to call Ken Levine a pro rape supporter just to complete the circus.

Edit: "@lewdkitty @dragon_ebooks I'm totally self conscious about my voice but I still very much want to talk online. I need to work up the courage"

Okaaaay... I don't even talk online because I don't care to. Plain and simple. She needs courage to? I could if I really wanted to. But I don't want to! What the hell is her problem? It sounds like feminist attention seeking. Being a female myself, I think she's an idiot.

First GOW: Ascension, now this, a few years ago, this would have been a non-issue, now people are crying about somebody making a joke about being tired. Thank you again twitter for getting offended over some useless crap that was clearly not intended to cause offence!

Even if he did say something about rape (which he didnt). Who gives a crap. I mean really. Just cause people die in the world.. doesnt mean people stop joking about death. People like to use that whole double standard thing, because they somehow associate a woman being tortured and assume everyone else in teh world sees that image if the word roofie is used. Some people just need to stfu.

They both enjoy it though. They keep calling everyone who comments to them white and fat, that rape is regarded well in society and calls everyone who asks them how they got a rape joke out of a roofie joke an idiot

In fairness, we shouldn't we joke about rape, it contributes to an overall cultural trivialization of the subject. As if people, in their fear of it as a reality to be dealt with, decide instead to joke about it- to "pad" it with humour. Humour as a distancing tool.

I know this is just one instance, but #1. He's an authoritative voice in the videogames industry and #2. People make these kinds of tasteless jokes all the time; it's hard to attack everyone all at once about it. To be honest I think admonishing a "famous" person about it is more effective than admonishing some random joe public. It makes waves like this is sort of doing.

The thing is though, he didn't even mean it in the sense that Jeff Gertsman was going to rape him. He meant that he looked tired, something that roofies do to you and because it is used as "the date rape drug" people assumed he was making light of rape. I bet rape didn't even cross his mind when he tweeted that.

You think it's OK to tarnish the reputation of a famous person just to bring a subject to light? What does a person's social standing have anything to do with misrepresenting a person's character? You think it's OK to make an example of someone famous just to push an agenda? How would you feel if you were in that situation, famous or not? Ken Levine, while popular, is still a human being, and as such he deserves to behave and be treated as one just like anyone else.

I'm sorry, but in the instance of rape, I think the mainstream media and most people I know pretty much think it's reprehensible. I don't know why you have to drag someone's name through the mud just to make a point that really doesn't need to be made.

I say many many inappropriate things in the company of friends, and they say them right back. We understand it's a joke, and believe me if anyone of us were faced with a terrible thing such as rape, sexism, racism, assault, or whatever we would handle that situation with all seriousness and not make jokes about it.

We're adults, and as such we can separate reality from just having a good laugh.

More on topic.

This whole thing was taken out of context without even knowing the man. For all we know being roofied is just a colloquialism for "someone took me out and got me piss ass drunk the night before". I say this, because I've heard it used this way on more than one occasion. From his original comment, the only rape implied was by those accusing him of inappropriateness.

Re: everyone thinks rape is reprehensible... Yeah, I dunno. People say they're against rape, until it happens. Then it's the victim's fault for being in a situation where they could be raped.

Raped in India? Well, why were you there, you know it's dangerous, you shouldn't have been outdoors at night. Raped by football players? Well, why'd you get so drunk and ruin their lives (seriously, CNN kind of said this)? Raped by your husband? Well, if you didn't want it, why did you marry him, or stay with him? Raped while being a man? You must have been in prison and deserved it, or weren't a real man in the first place. Raped while young? You probably wanted it, and you're only talking about it now because someone found out. And on and on... it's really sad.

On the actual topic, though, I don't see this tweet as such a big deal. Probably only became one because he's got a lot of followers, and statistically some of them have been roofied and raped, so it's hard for them to hear roofies spoken of casually. It's why people who are high profile should generally just be careful about what they say.

Rape has happened in my family, really close to it and I didn't even think of it until people pointed it out. Unless you have even dealt with this issue first hand, whats give you the right to say anything on the matter?

I cannot stand people thinking they are an authoritative figure on the matter, when they don't know the first thing about how people who have dealt with this react.

He shouldn't have even apologized. I swear people are getting more hateful and retarded every minute. There's no common sense anymore. Everyone just bashes everyone. Well, I'm jumping on the bandwagon just to say that those idiots who nitpick over every single fucking thing can just go roll over in shit and die stuffing it in their throats. Whoops, I can hear the police coming..

A roofie is a pill that basically knocks a person out; some shady men use it to knock out a women at a bar by spiking her drink with it and rape them. It's the most infamous and well-known use of the drug, but certainly isn't the only one. People just like to assume the worst, even if it means pulling shit out of their own ass.

I was wondering what people would be crying about this week, last week was the trophy name and now this. I feel like slapping the jerks who tweeted for ken Levine to die, the tweet is not offensive at all.

Yeah I know! I saw the scene on youtube and laughed, even by gow standards it didnt come close to being brutal. It seemed to me as that sessler dude wanted some attention but I definitely have no respect for him now.

You people need to watch some jim jefferies if you want to be really offended, and I don't mean his tv show which is almost g rated in comparison, but his hbo special.

Now I want to add a joke here from ted that mark walberg said, to illustrate the ridiculous double standards leveled on anything games related and the witch hunting culture of twitter frenzy that seems to blow everything out of proportion these days, but then twitter might come after me.

The hell? Well, I'm not at all surprised given that this is the internet we are seeing this kind of reaction from. People these days are seriously looking to get offended for random crap. Not that they just hear stuff, but actively search for it on purpose or take these things out of context. What a bunch of morons...

People are absolutely ridiculous, and it seems that a lot of people on the internet are just looking for a reason to get mad and then venting their anger toward anyone that says something they don't like (the irony of writing this on N4G does not escape me). Let's be serious though, if you look at interviews and articles with or about Ken Lavine he seems like a pretty nice guy that is probably smarter than a lot of people in the industry...He CERTAINLY does not seem like the type of person to make a rape joke, I would say the people that saw his statement as a reference to rape are worse people than him because let's be real, they're the ones that went immediately to rape, not Ken Levine. Lay off the guy, he tried to make a joke and did't realize it would offend some people, go take a Midol and get over it.